Research on melanoma and P53

[jaykay]

The pigmented skin cells that became cancerous had turned on a gene, crestin, that is normally activated only in cells that are part of the neural ...

I read this the other day - had an interest since I also had melanoma, which seems to be related to breast cancer somehow. I recall some posts from Lani (?) where the P53 gene was mentioned.

Interesting article and research.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/health/how-skin-cancer-develops-melanoma-zebra-fish.html

Regards
Janis

[agness]

Interesting. More general info about P53 can be found here:

http://p53.free.fr/p53_info/p53_cancer.html